Tags: "Cowlane Orchard"

Funds did not allow this survey to include new houses and estates as originally planned, but three exceptions were made - to illustrate replacement of old property demolished, (see 'Tudor Cottages - a history'), the enterprise and skill of a Mickleton couple, (see 'Grey Gables - a history), and the successful use of synthetic material combined with good design and careful workmanship which this house shows.

The architect was Stanhope C Hodson, Dip Arch (Leics) ARIBA, of Chipping Campden, and building and roofing were done by the local Mickleton builder. Stone has become an unattainable ideal as a building material except in special areas and often a sythetic has to be used; this example shows that design and workmanship can together produce a house which blends peacefully with its surroundings.